"bonham15" <bonham15 at cox.net> writes: > i actually came to lord of light rather late. i think last year it was that > i picked it up for something like fifty cents from a used book store. it > has held up amazingly well for a 40 year old story, as good ones will imho That's an attitude that continues to catch me by surprise -- that you expect new stories to be *better* than old stories. I expect exactly the reverse; we're living with the cream skimmed off a few thousand years of literary history, and the best stuff from that much time is mostly incomparably better than nearly anything created this year. It takes something really fantastic like _A Fire Upon the Deep_, say, to even look like a *candidate* for that sort of status in the long run. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>